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Today's Fresh Blogs...| How ethical is the 'ethical' industry |
| Published: June 21, 2007, 8:26 am |
| Tags: Drug Research And Development, Insider Trading, Pfizer, Trovan, Pharmaceutical Industry |
| I am in the middle of preparing a presentation on the innovative ('ethical') pharmaceutical industry. After just a few hours on the net, searching for misdeed, I stumbled about incident after incident after incident. Here's a bullet point list of some of the stuff I found:Merck: VIOXX withheld information about health risks from patients and |
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| Checkers Is Solved |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 3:04 am |
| Tags: Games, Sports, News, Research, Mathematics, Science |
| According to the Los Angeles Times, scientists at the University of Alberta have completely solved checkers. They have written a computer program which has enumerated all 500,995,484,682,338,672,639 possible board configurations and shown that with best play, the game of checkers is a draw. Their computer program, named Chinook, can not be |
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| Research Shows Hand Movements Aid Learning Mathematics |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 3:33 pm |
| Tags: Education, Research, Mathematics, Science |
| Mad Professah was alerted to this interesting article about the impact that using hand gestures during the teaching of mathematics. Post-doctoral fellow Susan Wagner Cook at the University of Rochester has published an article in the latest issue of Cognition which indicates that students who use hand gestures while doing math are three times more |
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| Alcohol: Lower your grades and boost your income? |
| Published: September 18, 2006, 7:35 pm |
| Tags: Research, Social Issues |
| According to The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 25% of college students report a drop in their grades and academic performance because of drinking. Yet, according to a new Libertarian-funded study conducted by the Journal of Labor Research,... |
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| How much does a new Gen Next vote cost? |
| Published: September 12, 2006, 6:19 pm |
| Tags: Politics, Research |
| With elections just two months away, voter mobilization efforts already are kicking into high gear, with a special effort to increase Gen Nexters' turnout in 2006. After an increase in turnout for the 2004 election, when voter participation among 18-... |
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| Dream big, disappoint big |
| Published: September 5, 2006, 6:19 pm |
| Tags: On The Road, Research, Social Issues |
| In the Health section of The Washington Post, Elizabeth Agnvall reports on the findings of a Florida State University study that says the dreams of today's young adults are becoming increasingly unachievable. According to the study, Generation Next is just... |
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| 1 in 8 campaign launches to bring parents and premature babies closer together |
| Published: July 17, 2007, 2:54 am |
| Tags: Health, Parenting, Babies, Bliss, Care, Hospital, Medical, Premature, Research, Sick |
| parent and baby alike. The research, which is unusual in that it is nurse-led, will test ways in which parents can overcome the barriers they face. The research will directly involve approximately 200 patients, nurses and parents and will be conducted across four neonatal units in the UK. At the heart of the research is the idea that parents |
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| Parental divorce is key factor in break-ups amongst their children |
| Published: July 16, 2007, 12:59 pm |
| Tags: Marriage, Children, Relationships, Children, Divorce, Genetics, Marriage, Research, Society, Statistics, Trends |
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| The Right Stuff: First Flight of X-48B Blended Wing Body Aircraft Prototype |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 11:40 am |
| Tags: Aircraft, Blended Wing Body, Boeing, Nasa, Plane, Prototype, The Right Stuff, Top, U S Air Force Research Laboratory, Virtual Presence, X 48b |
| Boeing's Blended Wing Body research aircraft in flight for the first time. The prototype, developed by Boeing Phantom Works with cooperation from NASA and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, flew for 31 minutes, reaching an altitude of 7,500 feet. Check the sexy gallery and jump for more details about the BWB. Boeing is at it again with one |
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| Sony Electronics starting to blog |
| Published: July 18, 2007, 7:01 am |
| Tags: Blogging Customer Engagement Forrester Research Sony |
| Bernoff at Forrester Research for the heads-up. I have never met the Sony blogs author Rick Clancy personally but having spent part of my career in Corporate Communications (the job Rick has) I know all the potential pit-falls. His first post |
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| New Scientist and the Autism Omnibus |
| Published: June 23, 2007, 4:39 pm |
| Tags: New Scientist, Thimerosal, Mmr, Geiers, Autism Omnibus, Autism Parents, Chelation, Lupron, Autism, Research Ethics, Quackery In Autism, Autism Research, Mercury |
| New Scientist has published an interesting commentary on the Autism Omnibus proceedings that are taking place in the United States Court of Federal Claims. They are quite rightly sympathetic to the Cedillo family whose case is the first of around 4,800 that seek to establish whether or not thimerosal containing vaccines, MMR or a combination |
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| Downs but not out. |
| Published: June 17, 2007, 5:01 pm |
| Tags: Quackery In Autism, Autism Research, Downs Syndrome, Genetic Research, Research Ethics, Disability Rights, Autism, Abortion, Neurodiversity, Parents |
| Down’s syndrome novel tugs at America’s heartstrings Moving tale that highlights genetic condition becomes sleeper hit of the year Paul Harris in New York Sunday June 17, 2007 The Observer Like many good stories, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter begins on a dark and snowy night. But, unlike most first novels from barely known |
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| A Unified Theory of Autism? |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 5:08 am |
| Tags: Unified Theory Of Autism, Michael Wigler, Autism Research, Autism Disorder, Paul Law, Autism Knowledge Revolution |
| seems to fit with the autism research paradigm shift mentioned in an earlier post. Environment versus genetics as competing and conflicting theories of autism causation seems to be giving way to environment and genetics as a unified theory of autism develops.From Newsday.com:http://tinyurl.com/2mc92b A new model for understanding how autism is |
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| Autism Research Paradigm Shift |
| Published: July 15, 2007, 2:08 am |
| Tags: Autism Treatment, Applied Autism Research, University Of Minnesota, Thomas Kuhn, Scientific Revolution, Autism Knowledge Revolution, Paradigm Shift |
| new breakthroughs in autism research. At the University of Minnesota it is hoped that a new autism research center will be accompanied by a paradigm shift in how autism is viewed. In an opinion article, TwinCities.com reviews the shift from Bettelheim's "refrigerator mom" theory which viewed autism as arising from personal interaction, or lack |
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| Multitasking Robots: Multiple Speech Recognition To Make Sex Dolls More Fun |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 10:45 am |
| Tags: Honda Research Institute Japan, Kyoto University, Multiple Speech Recognition, Multitasking Robots, Robot Audition Project, Robovie R2 |
| University and the Honda Research Institute Japan have collaborated to form the Robot Audition Project. They are at present making some very impressive ground; they have developed an advanced speech recognition technology that has the capability to understand multiple, unique speech inputs, whilst computing their meaning independently. The |
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